Highlighting the evolution of corruption and represents the highlights of the phenomenon from the social, economic and...
Ancient
Sacrifice scene during a census: left part of a plaque from the Altar of Domitius Ahenobarbus known...
Mosaic depicting Roman slaves, Tunisia, 2nd century CE / Wikimedia Commons The forms of servitude known in...
Workers depicted in a mural at the tomb of Menna at Thebes, 18th Dynasty / Photo by...
The Massacre of the Triumvirate, by Antoine Caron, 1566 / Louvre Museum, Wikimedia Commons Roman eyes were...
The Entrance of Cornelius Sulla into Rome, where he was appointed as “Dictator” in the First Century...
The Tarpeian Rock / Photo by Lalupa, Wikimedia Commons The world quickened and mutated, and the Republic...
Antonine baths ruins / Photo by Aymen, Wikimedia Commons The Carthaginian assault on their Numidian neighbours gave...
Brysa Hill ruins / Creative Commons The had an international blend of skills and cultures was a...
A representation of Draco at the library of the Supreme Court of the United States / Photo...
A fresco by Cesare Maccari (1840-1919 CE) depicting Roman senator Cicero (106-43 BCE) denouncing the conspirator Catiline...
Phoenician ship Carved on the face of a sarcophagus, 2nd century CE / NMB, Wikimedia Commons Although...
The Rape of Lucretia by Titian (1490-1576 CE). Lucretia was raped by Sextus, son of the Roman...
Wikimedia Commons Through his Cyropaedia, Cyrus’s notions of human rights influenced the U.S. Constitution—Thomas Jefferson owned two...
Looking to the writings of Duncan Kennedy and Hannah Arendt for further insight. By Dr. Elena Giusti...
A relief carving of the Egyptian god Thoth from the throne back of a seated statue of...
The Great Sphinx of Giza / Photo by MusikAnimal, Wikimedia Commons An exclusive title held only by...
Sumer, in southernmost Mesopotamia, was the first true city in the world, some time not very much...
Reconstruction of ancient life and environments is an extremely challenging problem. By Dr. William Irvin Sellers Professor,...
John W. Waterhouse, “A Mother Bringing Her Sick Child to the Temple of Asklepios”, 1877 (Image in...
The Pantheon in 1836, by Jakob Alt / Albertina, Wikimedia Commons Religious worship was a public affair...
By the 3rd millennium BCE, the southern Levant was a land of small, fortified towns and villages,...
Mt Etna, with Catania in the foreground / Photo by BenAveling, Wikimedia Commons Stories were used as...
The Temple to Apollo at Delphi / Photo by Greudin, Wikimedia Commons The history of ancient Greece...
Augusts as Rome’s Pontifex Maximus (High Priest) / Wikimedia Commons Every citizen of Rome became his client...
The assassination of Julius Caesar, painted by William Holmes Sullivan, c. 1888 / Wikimedia Commons Dissatisfied Republicans...
Mysia Islands off Troas, Tenedos. Circa 100-70 BC. Tetradrachm (Silver, 16.27 g 12). / Photo by Exekias,...
The historical emergence and use of money is an important question. By Dr. Alexander W. Salter /...
Noria Waterwheel / Wikimedia Commons The fundamental processes of agriculture, pottery making, and cloth making, plus language,...
Statue of Themistocles in Piraeus, Greece By David Van Dyk / 08.17.2016 “My boy, you will be...